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SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police arrested a woman on a murder charge late Thursday after a detective said she deleted call records or text messages while being questioned about a fatal shooting earlier in the day.

Sara Mary Clements, 24, eventually admitted to being with Alex Navarro, 22, on Thursday at about 1:30 a.m. and said “police were going to find out about her anyway because of the text messages she had sent” to Navarro, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

A confidential informant also told police that Clements had confessed to being present during Navarro's murder and she had said her boyfriend shot Navarro.

Police also requested a warrant to charge another person, Carlos Smith, with murder.

A neighbor of Navarro's at the Cordoba Apartment Homes in the 7800 block of Callaghan Road told police he heard a loud knock at his door early Thursday. The neighbor, who said he was also Navarro's friend, told police he answered the door and Navarro walked in, collapsed and tried to stand back up. Navarro said he had been shot.

When the neighbor asked Navarro who shot him, Navarro said, “Sara,” over and over again, according to police. Navarro also said, “Sara's friend,” according to the warrant.

Emergency medical technicians tried to save Navarro, who was shot in the abdomen, at the scene, but he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

Later, when a homicide detective asked to see Clements' cell phone, she “acted like she didn't hear the request, in an obvious attempt to stall, while she furiously manipulated the keys of her cell phone,” according to the warrant.

Clements continued to stall by saying she was receiving a call as she erased more data, according to the warrant. She then handed over her phone, “while acting like she was happy to cooperate,” according to the affidavit.

She eventually admitted to being with Navarro at the time and said she had sent him text messages, according to the affidavit.

Clements was charged with murder and served with a theft warrant in connection with a separate incident. Her bail totals more than $150,000.